This launch facility would initially be very similar to their Vandenberg Air Force Bade site, launching Falcon 9, Falcon Heavy and F9-R, but Musk has made it clear the area would also get a new factory for building much larger rockets and Brownsville would be the launch site.

The proposed site of a facility for Elon Musk’s Space Exploration Technologies Corp., where the world’s first privately-owned commercial rocket-launching complex would be located, consists of 87 acres in four tracts along state Highway 4 at Boca Chica Boulevard.
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• PARCEL 4: SpaceX already has leased this tract of about 56.5 acres as its primary launch site, and purchased about 27 acres.
>The goal is to initiate unmanned launches at the site by the fourth quarter of 2015, according to public records about the proposal.
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That confirms my point. Depots using deep cryo fuels like H2 suffer the most boiloff, and this is lessened with CH4. You need less cooling and insulation, and that reduces power demands.

Also note it doesn't mention any on-orbit tests of depot tech using H2. It's been tested at a very basic level in space, mainly a used Centaur stage a few years ago, but not anything really functional That is what I meant by being "done."

Note the tumble. Its intentional to test deployment under a very abnormal situation. The drogue mortar has also been moved from the service bay near the bottom to the top near the docking adapter to make more room for the SuperDraco thrusters and their tanks.

there isn't mistake to inform about: for initial test, such flip-flopping ain't big deal -- it's even good to stress chutes as much as possible. For re-entry phase, Yes -- such dances cannot be acceptable. By the way, that whirling is possible in powered-landing scheme because thrusters have a probability to malfunction even higher than chutes.

....thrusters have a probability to malfunction even higher than chutes..

The reverse is true.

Parachutes are complex with numerous failure modes. Hypergolic thusters are inherently extremely reliable, which is why they're still in use after almost 70 years.

With parachutes the mortar can fail to fire, the deployment controller can fail, the altimeter or inertial sensors can fail, drogues can fail to deploy and/or tangle, the mains can fail to deploy and/or tangle, ANY of the parachutes or drogues can fail to inflate or shred, etc.

For a parachute to fail any one of several things in a sequence can bring down the whole thing. Having 3 redundant parachutes can help, but on a bad day they can also take each other out.

Hypergolic thrusters use a fuel and oxidizer that ignite on contact, so no igniter is needed, and there are no pumps as both tanks are gas pressurized, with backups.

All that's needed for thrusters to work is for a release valve set to open, and there is not only a backup flow path & valve set (or several) but in DragonRider the avionics computer that controls the valves is quad-redundant.

For thrusters to totally fail a lot of things have to break at once, and in the case of SuperDtaco's even they are redundant - DragonRider can lose 1-2 thrusters and still land or, at worst, deploy the parachutes.